(a) All cellar doors which extend upon a pavement or sidewalk shall be kept in good and sufficient order and the same shall be closed during the day, except when the steps leading to the cellar are in use, and at all hours during the night. All openings to basements shall be so protected as to prevent persons from falling into the same, and all coal vaults in sidewalks shall be covered with an iron grating which shall be kept in place except when the vaults are being used in discharging coal into the same. No opening to enter a basement shall be made upon a sidewalk, except an ordinary cellarway, and the doors covering the same shall, when closed, be even with the line of the pavement or sidewalk. No cellar door opening shall extend more than three feet in front of the property line. Openings to basements which have heretofore been permitted to be made, so long as the same remain, shall be surrounded with a proper railing and guards, and after nightfall the openings into the basement shall be closed either with a door or by a chain so as to prevent accidents.
(b) No steps extending more than three feet on the sidewalk in front of the property line shall be allowed to be constructed on any sidewalk, but when the sidewalk is less than nine feet but not less than seven feet in width the steps shall not extend over two feet, and where the sidewalk is less than seven feet in width the steps shall not extend over one foot. All steps, when constructed, shall be open and uncased, the steps being laid parallel with the line of the street.
(Gen. Ord. 48. Passed 10-15-1890.)